Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Lin who wrote (50960)	3/23/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>(If not Sony, then maybe Nikon? I don't know the camera market. I use the Walmart $6 disposables)<< Nikon states on its web page that they will not use disc technology in their portable devices because it is not reliable enough. The $6 disposable 35mm camera you buy at Wal-Mart takes better pictures than any digital camera out there. >>Iomega might be pursuing the correct strategy by cross licensing its Vapor! technology to Matsushita and Citizen. << It is the correct strategy, because it's the only way they can get it into Japan. The Japanese like proprietary devices- as long as they're Japanese. However, this "correct strategy" dilutes any profits to be made, and is certainly not the way Iomega would have liked things to go. The plain truth is that Flash Cards are far more reliable, far more durable, faster, smaller, and are already the standard. And, they are getting cheaper all the time. When Vapor! is finally wheelchaired out in the Fall, people will look at a 40MB disc and say, $200 for 40MB disc drive? BWah-HA-Ha-HaHa!!!! See-Yah!